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The Big Ask
When the story recently came out about a 9-year-old who asked people for $829 to learn how to build her own role-playing game despite the fact her mother is a millionaire, you patted yourself on the back, right? After all, you’ve never responded to Facebook posts from friends pleading support for their Kickstarter campaigns. The…
Chancellor Harris: ‘I Believe PCC Is A Fundamentally Strong Institution’
An email went out to all Pima Community College faculty and staff today at 2:23 p.m. from Interim Chancellor Zelema Harris: From: Pima Community College, Office of the ChancellorSent: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 2:23 PMTo: #Pima-AllCc: #Board; brendaeven@gmail.com; ksolomon@hlcommission.orgSubject: Message from the Interim Chancellor Colleagues, I began serving as Pima’s Interim Chancellor on April 15…
Agave Fest at Club Congress
The Fifth Annual Agave Fest is happening Friday, May 3 at Hotel Congress. Over 40 tequilas, mezcals, sotols, and baconoras will be on hand for tasting as well as an agave cocktail throw-down contest by some of Tucson’s best bartenders (mixologists, if you are a hipster). Cocktails from the likes of Aaron Defeo of Casino…
State Bar Arizona Provides Free Legal Clinics On National Law Day
The State Bar of Arizona is celebrating the nationally recognized Law Day by offering community members in Tucson and Phoenix free legal clinics where they can get questions answered about a number of topics. The clinics are expected to draw in more people this year, the second time they’re being held, and will include bilingual…
You Should Download This Amazing Arizona-Themed Mixtape
Image courtesy of Shutterstock Former Phoenix New Times music editor/current Zia something/excellent guy Jason Woodbury has collected a selection of songs recorded in Arizona between 1951-1971 for the music blog Aquarium Drunkard. It’s a great listen, with tracks by the Al Casey Combo, Wanda Jackson, and Duane Eddy, it’s free and you should grab it…
Critter of the Week: Mario
The Humane Society of Southern Arizona introduces Mario, an 11-year-old Siamese cat. (Reference no. 747416) Mischievous Mario can always put a smile on your face. This big comical kitty is packed with personality and attitude. As a special guest in staff offices at the Humane Society of Southern Arizona, Mario insists on being the center…
Burke and Carty – Sounds of Sligo in the Old Pueblo
Kevin Burke is known far and wide in Irish music circles as a quintessential Sligo fiddler. He was born in London 62 years ago, but his parents were Irish immigrants from Sligo, and it’s the rhythms of that Atlantic-washed county in the West of Ireland that shape his playing. “Many great fiddlers come from Sligo,”…
Fred DuVal Is Officially Running for Governor
A more formal announcement is set for Bentley’s on Speedway today at 2 pm, but because we live in the 21st century, Fred DuVal is using YouTube to kick off his attempt to win the governor’s seat in 2014. Unless Chad Campbell throws his hat in the ring, as it stands, it looks like DuVal,…
PCSD is Searching For Someone Who Robbed A Woman at Knifepoint While Wearing a Demon Mask
Courtesy of Pima County Sheriff’s Department After spending all day processing this as best as I could, I now feel confident in telling you that this is the weirdest story of a robbery I’ve seen in quite some time. According to a release from the Pima County Sheriff’s Department, a woman was robbed at the…
Kimmel Show Tricks Coachella Hipsters Into Digging Bands That Don’t Exist
In a way, I can’t blame these poor folks who were tricked so handily by the Jimmy Kimmel Live! folks, because let’s face it: there are an absolute shit-ton of bands at Coachella each year. Of the bands listed on this big-ass poster, I recognized roughly a third of the names on there — and…
John McCain’s Approval Rating Craters to Lowest Mark in Two Decades
Nearly two-thirds of Arizonans think that John McCain’s time in office is up, according to a poll released today. According to the Behavior Research Center’s Rocky Mountain Poll, McCain’s job approval rating has dropped to its lowest level since the early ’90s, with only 26% of Arizonans supporting him, and 67% of Arizonans believing that…
Slate: Why Tsarnaev Should Not Be Held As an Enemy Combatant
Slate’s Emily Bazelon argues that the Obama Justice Department is right to ignore calls by Sens. Lindsey Graham and John McCain to hold Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as an “enemy combatant”: None of the evidence so far suggests that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev or his older brother, Tamerlan, are connected to al-Qaida or any group associated with it. To…
Let’s Watch Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’ “Can’t Hold Us” Video
The completely independent release of Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’ The Heist was one of the biggest surprises of last year, debuting near the top of the Billboard charts in its first week of release, topping the iTunes charts and recently went Gold — and it’s honestly my favorite record of the last year or so,…
Club Congress Displays Art Against Sexual Harassment
The Hey Baby! Art Against Sexual Violence workshop, put on by the Southern Arizona Center Against Sexual Assault (SACASA), will continue its display of Hey Baby! Lights, in the lobby of Club Congress until May 3. The art exhibit portrays themes related to sexual violence including the general interaction between men and women and the…
No More Lunch at Downtown Kitchen + Cocktails
This is your last week to have lunch at Downtown Kitchen + Cocktails. From a press release, Janos says, “Closing at lunch allows us the flexibility to put our energies into the areas of our business which are growing most rapidly and continue to push the quality of service and innovation of the food forward.…
Decision 2013: Which Sparky Do You Want to Mock?
I’ve never wanted to be an Arizona State University student, alum or staff member than I do right now. (Full disclosure: I’ve never wanted any of those things in any amount, ever before) It’d almost be worth it to pay whatever fee it costs to “apply” to ASU — remember, Ned Flanders has noted that…
A Look at Amazon’s Original Comedy Pilots
Amazon.com Izabela Vidovic, Kirk Ward, Maiara Walsh and Tyler Ross take the leads in Zombieland: The Series. Last week, Amazon released pilots for the new, original sitcoms that they’re testing for their streaming video service, Amazon Instant Video, hoping to draw customers away from Netflix’s booming streaming video service and into the warm embrace of…
Confused About Loft Film Times? You Can Help Fix That
Next to the complaint that ticket lines are too long (of course they’re too long when everyone shows up only five minutes ahead of the screening), the only predictable thing about The Loft Cinema, a readers’ favorite for as long as there’s been a Best of Tucson, may be that showtimes are completely unpredictable. Would…
Vulgar Sorority Email Goes Viral (NSFW language)
An email sent to the Delta Gamma sorority members at the University of Maryland was leaked to Gawker and Deadspin last week. The email contained an insane rant by the chapter’s president about their lack of enthusiasm in events for Greek Week with fraternity Sigma Nu and how they were “fucking up.” Michael Shannon, the…
Al Melvin Considering a Run for Governor
Aleksa Brown The Cap’n in Action While Cap’n Al Melvin hasn’t exactly been a friend of the Weekly in the past, I personally could not be more excited by his move to form an exploratory committee to run for governor. First of all, we would have an answer to the question “After Brewer, it couldn’t…
Cochise County Parks Celebrate National Park Week
Three Cochise County parks are hosting special events through April 28 to celebrate National Park Week. Visitors can also celebrate the 89th anniversary of Chiricahua National Monument during the week. Tours of the Faraway Ranch will be offered throughout the week. Rangers at Coronado National Memorial will be leading a hike at 1 p.m. Friday,…
Bomb Threat Closes Down Desert View (Temporarily)
Image courtesy Google Maps Update from Sunnyside: The “All Clear” has been issued by Tucson Police. No explosive devices were found. Teachers and staff members have been allowed back in the school at this time. Still, there’s never a good time for a bomb threat, but today was a particularly poor bit of timing. From…
Tom Goes to the Chair: In Which We Learn Danehy Disagrees With TV Critics
AMC For Tom, watching Mad Men might occupy a circle of his personal Hell. I tried; I really did. I watched Mad Men one last time. Never again. I don’t get it. They’re all a bunch of unlikable people in an unlikable profession doing unlikable things to each other and sometimes to themselves. Mad Men…
Tucson Author Explores 1930s Film Industry With ‘Take Her For A Ride’
Courtesy of Steven Painter Tucson author Steven Painter is an expert in film studies, and he’s sharing his expertise with his latest book, Take Her For A Ride. The book, which follows a film producer in 1930s Hollywood as he tries to save his studio from demise during the Great Depression, calls on a number…
AZ Illustrated Politics: State Lawmakers Talk Medicaid Expansion, Election Reform, More
Republican state Rep. Ethan Orr and Democratic state Rep. Victoria Steele (both of Tucson’s District 9) stopped by AZ Illustrated Politics to bring viewers up to speed on the legislative session. Arizona Capitol Times reporter Hank Stephenson joined the panel to discuss Gov. Jan Brewer’s proposal to expand Medicaid to 133 percent of the federal…
Antigone Books Participates in World Book Night
On Tuesday, April 23, volunteers will give away half a million free books in more than 6,000 locations across the country. Tucson’s Antigone Books (411 N. Fourth Ave.) is a partner in World Book Night U.S. The goal of World Book Night U.S. is to seek out people without the means or access to printed…
Peek in the Closets and Medicine Cabinets of Historic Homes Tomorrow
Tucson Historic Preservation Foundation 4/20 Home Tour: Historic Adobes of Barrio Viejo Six of those adobe mansions you’ve been curious about in Barrio Viejo are open for a tour tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. It’s well worth the $35 tour fee to see the insides of these adobe structures that define our distinctive…
‘The Onion’ Covers Just How Terrible This Week Has Been
Honestly, from the Boston Bombing (from its abhorrent coverage to the shootout between police and suspects this morning) to the fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas, this week has been completely, absolutely awful. And, again, satirical “news” source The Onion has completely nailed it in a piece yesterday, simply titled “Jesus, This Week” (NSFW language…
Support the Fight to Bring Isabel Celis Home This Sunday
Courtesy of the Find Isabel Celis Facebook page April 21 will mark one year since Isabel Celis went missing from her family’s home in Tucson, and supporters of the Celis family have organized a fundraiser this Sunday to further awareness of the fight to find her. The “Bring Isa Home” event will be held this…
A Video Celebrating Joe Biden’s Scarf Removal Game Set to “Return of the Mack” Exists, Is Beautiful
I don’t understand this video, but I’m super-glad it exists.
A Festival Celebrating Cured Porcine Belly
The Reid Park Band Shell will be the home of Arizona’s first Bacon Fest. Saturday, May 18 is the day vegetarians should hide and pray to their veggie gods. From the Bacon Fest Facebook page: For one admission price you will sample creations from restaurants and chefs that all incorporate our beloved bacon along with…
Run to Benefit Boston Victims Set for Monday
Fleet Feet Tucson, the Eastside running store where one of Tucson’s Boston Marathon participants works, is hosting a run Monday at 6 pm to benefit The One Fund, set up by “Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and Boston Mayor Tom Menino…to help the people most affected by the tragic events that occurred in Boston on April…
Here’s the Schedule for Exile on Congress Street Tomorrow
It’s a little weird today to think about anything other than obsessively following the news waiting for something to happen in Boston (although it’s possible something will have happened by the time you read this, so nevermind), but tomorrow is Exile on Congress Street, which is going to be a great night of music on…
Senators Debate Tying the Marathon Bombing Suspects With Immigration Reform
So in case you’ve missed it, there’s a manhunt going on for one of the two suspected Boston Marathon bombers after a firefight between the suspects and police left one of the alleged bombers dead. The remaining suspect is 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. His brother, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was killed last night in a shootout with…
Tickets Already on Sale for Next Year’s Country Thunder
Photo from Flickr Creative Commons by Josh Llyod With Country Thunder 2013 wrapping up a mere few days ago, tickets have already gone on sale on Tuesday for next year’s Country Thunder for $99. Filled with cowboy boots, flannel shirts and a hefty supply of beer, Country Thunder 2014 is set in Florence, Ariz. from…
‘Funny World’ Will Make the Next Ten Minutes of Your Life Weird and Kind of Wonderful
Funny World from Ben Kitnick on Vimeo. If you’ve ever wanted to see a 78-year-old man with muttonchops like Lemmy from Motorhead “rap” in the desert hills while wearing a hat made of horns, then I’ve got the opportunity for you. Funny World, a documentary about Phoenix’s Donald Roth — or “the World’s Oldest Gay…
Get a Taste of ‘The Great Gatsby’ Soundtrack with Florence and the Machine’s ‘Only the Love’
I’ll continue to reserve judgement on Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby until it’s released on May 10, but if the film has 1/100 of the staying power of its highly anticipated soundtrack, it may be well worth the (seemingly never-ending) wait. You can watch a preview above – released Tuesday – featuring 30-second clips of…
Satisfy Your Cravings at Taste of Chocolate This Sunday
Courtesy of the Taste of Chocolate website The Rincon Rotary Club is hosting their Fifth Annual Taste of Chocolate this Sunday, blending a community fundraising event with what should be an experience akin to nirvana for chocolate lovers. Only those with formidable sweet tooths need apply: more than 30 Tucson chefs and businesses – including…
Rift on the Right: Immigration Reform Triggering Conservative Backlash
The Senate’s Gang of Eight—including Arizona’s John McCain and Jeff Flake—unveiled its comprohensive immigration reform package earlier this week. Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, in particular, is taking some hits. Republicans—including Arizona National Republican Committeeman Bruce Ash—have been highlighting the so-called “Marcophone.” The idea is to provide ranchers and other border residents with satellite…
Skintight Star Wars Costumes Soon Available for Your Child-Frightening Enjoyment
The trend of wearing a skintight body suit complete with head-enveloping mask is a little strange to me (“Hey, it’s a green faceless person in that college basketball crowd! Wow!”), but I suppose young people have to find new ways to have fun for me to find confusing. It’s the way of the world. Of…
This Is Your Gentle Best of Tucson 2013 Voting Reminder
We’ve had a great response so far, but as there are nearly a million people in the greater Tucson area and we’re still significantly short of that number of submitted ballots, it would appear some of you have not yet voted in our Best of Tucson poll for 2013. Let us know your favorite places,…
Gabrielle Giffords Named One of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People
NIGEL PARRY / CPI FOR TIME One day after writing a New York Times op-ed regarding the defeat of the Manchin-Toomey background check compromise, Time Magazine has named Gabrielle Giffords as one of its 100 most influential people of the year. The essay about her was penned by Jim Brady, the namesake of the Brady…
Soundbites
If you don’t go to a concert this week, you don’t like live music. We’ve got your guide.
Pronounced Poe-Lisa
Exile on Congress Street Poliça with Night Moves, Blind Divine, DJ Dirtyverbs/Verbobala, Yardsale Heart, Carlos Arzate and the Kind Souls and Chicha Dust at Club Congress, 311 E. Congress St. Dinosaur Jr., the Monitors, HAIRSPRAYFIREANDGIRLS and the Shrine at the Rialto Theatre, 318 E. Congress St. Saint Maybe, Tom Walbank, Smallvox and others at Playground,…
Top Ten in Music
1. Iron and Wine Ghost on Ghost 2. Various Artists The Music Is You: A Tribute to John Denver 3. Charles Bradley Victim of Love 4. Los Amigos Invisibles Repeat After Me 5. Anders Osborne Three Free Amigos 6. Devendra Banhart Mala 7. Caitlin Rose The Stand-In 8. Calexico Ancienne Belgique Vol. 2 9. Lila…
Film Across the World
With an incredible 140 films and short films this year, the 22nd Arizona International Film Festival will be showcasing the talent from 32 different countries this year. “It’s a new record for us,” said Mia Schnaible, the festival’s director of marketing and development. “They just couldn’t tear it down anymore and that’s kind of how…
Editor’s Note
I think most people would agree that life can be strange. I generally find the opinions of others confusing, but this past week, I’ve found myself shaking my head more than usual. First, we ran a comics survey online, mostly to get an idea of which of the national strips we run people like the…
Police Dispatch
A terrible driver left a little bit of himself (and his car) in a Tucsonan’s yard; a UA student doesn’t know who he pissed off enough to keep getting his door pissed on.
Live
There’s little difference between the Modest Mouse of 2007 and the Modest Mouse of 2013. The band has released just an odds-and-ends EP since its last Tucson visit. And aside from the notable departure of temporary guitarist Johnny Marr, Modest Mouse seems content to tread the same off-beat grooves. But the consistency that’s come after…
City Week
This weekend, take back the night with the Southern Arizona Center Against Sexual Assault; celebrate youth poetry; tour Barrio Viejo; and celebrate Earth Day!
Ask a Mexican!
The Mexican addresses the nature of pigeonholing races; and just where did tamarind come from?
Nine Questions
Frankie Grijalva is the event coordinator for Spark the Floor, a hip-hop dance competition returning to Tucson for the ninth year. The competition begins at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, April 27, at the Rialto Theatre, 318 E. Congress St. A pre-show starts at 6. Tickets are $12 advance and $15 day of. Go to rialtotheatre.com. What…
T Q&A
Thomas Holm retired from the UA in 2009 after three decades of teaching. He returns to campus on Thursday, April 25, as the final speaker in the Vine Deloria, Jr. Distinguished Indigenous Scholars Series. The series is sponsored by the American Indian Studies Program, which Holm helped develop in 1982, and reflects on the late…
What’s in Your Weed?
The first time I wondered what was in my cannabis was in the late 1970s, when the U.S. government conspired with Mexico to use the herbicide Paraquat to destroy marijuana crops south of the border. The governments sprayed the crops, then spread the rumor (later largely debunked) that any surviving Paraquat pot was unsafe to…
Danehy
DEAR POPE FRANCIS: A couple of weeks ago, my family went to Easter Mass together. (We usually show up from three or four different places in three or four different cars, but this time we thought we’d make it a family outing.) In the car on the way, my son (the provocateur) posed the question,…
Weekly Wide Web
What amazed me regarding April 15 is that, for much of the day following the bombing of the Boston Marathon, reaction seemed somewhat level-headed: All day, I heard reports of people opening up their homes, sharing food, organizing ways to find loved ones – generally, that news of good-hearted deeds overshadowed news of the tragedy.…
Media Watch
Two of Tucson’s weather personalities have a bad week; AZPM parts ways with Jackie Kain; and a whole lotta movement at the Arizona Daily Star‘s sports desk.
Gargulinski
Photographing dead bodies in Vietnam, undergoing 37 operations and suffering from head-to-toe disabilities may make some of us kind of disgusted with life. Heck, stubbing a toe can make some of us disgusted with life. Unless, of course, you happen to have a pet. Getting free pets for military veterans is the mission of the…
Strangely Surreal Musical
Nine Presented by Arizona Repertory Theatre 7:30 p.m., Thursday and Friday, April 18 and 19; 1:30 and 7:30 p.m., Saturday, April 20; 1:30 p.m., Sunday, April 21; 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday, April 26 and 27; 1:30 p.m., Sunday, April 28 UA Marroney Theatre, 1025 N. Olive Road $31 adults; $29 UA employees, seniors and…
Youth Lagoon: Wondrous Bughouse (Fat Possum)
Wondrous Bughouse, the second album by Youth Lagoon (the stage moniker of Idahoan Trevor Powers), is a discursive and eccentric album, perhaps even more so than his 2011 debut, The Year of Hibernation. Bughouse opens with 2 1/2 minutes of shapeless ambient glitches and ghostly piano. Though that opening might give the impression that this…
Majestic Mirth
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo 8 p.m., Saturday, April 20 Centennial Hall, 1020 E. University Blvd., on the UA campus $27, $37 and $42 general; $15, $33 and $42 UA students, faculty and staff. Discounts for seniors, military and groups Available at box office; at UA Student Union BookStores; at the “A” Stores at…
The Cave Singers: Naomi (Jagjaguwar)
The Cave Singers have a compelling vocalist in Pete Quirk, whose voice is tensile and un-pretty, a bit yelpy, with a bit of fire-and-brimstone preacher in it (a la the Violent Femmes’ Gordon Gano or Born Ruffians’ Luke Lalonde). They put out a career-best record in 2011 with the haunting No Witch, but Naomi finds…
Unintended Mystery
Tainted Mountain By Shannon Baker Midnight Ink Books $14.99; 345 pages White folks are allowed to attend some kachina dances on the Hopi reservation, but they are expected to remain quietly in the back and refrain from photographing the proceedings. When novelist Shannon Baker takes readers to a social dance on Second Mesa, she honors…
Mailbag
A physician addresses Mr. Smiths’ concerns from his April 11 column; a Tucsonan takes issue with our profile of Steve Kozachik and student housing projects.
Top Ten in Books
1.The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared Jonas Jonasson ($15.99) 2. Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power Rachel Maddow ($15) 3. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Jeanette Winterson ($15) 4. Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution Ann VanderMeer (ed.) ($15.95) 5. Little Master Shakespeare: Romeo & Juliet Jennifer Adams and…
Jacob Acosta: Chants of Diplomacy (Self-Released)
Of his first solo EP, Chants of Diplomacy, Jacob Acosta has stated (via press release) that his intentions were to break the invisible fourth wall between the artist and the audience, capturing an inviting and intimate photograph that is as much a lesson plan as it is a record. Recorded so you can hear every…
Crime, Characters, Camerawork
Director Derek Cianfrance, who helmed the devastatingly brilliant Blue Valentine, cranks up his ambitions for The Place Beyond the Pines, a gripping film experiment that works on every level. Cianfrance, as with Blue Valentine, does a lot of unconventional things this time out. There are many stories in this movie, with strong emphasis on many…
Howl
It was amid great fanfare and smoldering trepidation that Mexican gray wolves were released into the wilds of Arizona and New Mexico, mere decades after their near annihilation by the very government now setting them free. Yet that reintroduction came only after a lawsuit forced the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to finally act, more…
Slick and Silly
It isn’t so much that Danny Boyle takes us down one blind avenue after another that ruins Trance; it’s that once we get where we’re going, it’s still not interesting enough to be worth all the trouble. Boyle’s hot streak is well known, but it’s worth examining again for good measure. His film career kicked…
Justice Dreaming
When UA associate professor Elizabeth Oglesby testifies this month as an expert witness in the ongoing genocide trial of former Guatemalan leader Efraín Ríos Montt, she’ll be thinking about her former colleague Myrna Mack, who was assassinated in 1990. Oglesby, who teaches in the UA Center for Latin American Studies, is there to provide testimony…
True TV
You Should Watch It Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell Thursday, April 18 (Adult Swim) Series Debut: If “real” TV reviewers wrote about Adult Swim shows, there would be reviews that start “If you think your job is hell, wait till you see this series!” The Only TV Column That Matters™ weeps for this…
Pie in the Sky
Chris Bianco could have opened his second pizzeria anywhere in the world. He picked downtown Tucson. “Tucson has been one of my favorite places, for a lot of different reasons,” Bianco said. “I have good friends in Patagonia and in Sonoita and the wineries there. Tucson has always been a good stop on the way…
Top Ten in Cinema
1. Lincoln 2. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 3. This Is 40 4. Killing Them Softly 5. Les Misérables 6. Hyde Park on Hudson 7. Parental Guidance 8. John Dies at the End 9. A Royal Affair 10. The Sorcerer and the White Snake
The Skinny
We take a look at federal legislation on background checks … Gov. Brewer raises limits on campaign contribution limits … and Fred DuVal nabs some quality endorsements for his run at the governor’s office!
Chicago Style
Kenney D’s 8060 E. 22nd St., No. 100 722-8900 Additional location at 2400 N. Pantano Road. 290-7119 Open 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily Pluses: Inexpensive; huge portions; fast, friendly service; tasty sandwiches Minuses: Burger was disappointing; all sides are a la carte In a metro area with about 1 million people, Tucson probably has…
Get Ready to Be Haunted
Ghost B.C. with Ides of Gemini and Godhunter 8 p.m., Tuesday, April 23 Rialto Theatre318 E. Congress St. $19 advance, $22 day of; all ages 740-1000; rialtotheatre.com What we do know is this: The six-piece band formed as Ghost in 2008 in Linköping, Sweden, and released their 2010 debut album Opus Eponymous, which was widely…
Pedersen On Sports
I hate the NBA. There’s no point in painting it with fancy words—I simply find professional basketball to be the most unwatchable game around, even more than seniors tennis. Any sport where the vast difference in effort given during the regular season versus the postseason results in playoffs resembling offense-averse sludge fests is not high…
Noshing Around
What is “Dante’s Fire”?; Caruso’s turns the lights on; Umi Star is adding to its menu; Barrio Brewing is upgrading their equipment; and more!
Gabby Giffords: “I Am Asking Every Reasonable American To Help Me Tell The Truth About the Cowardice These Senators Demonstrated”
In the wake of today’s filibuster of the Manchin-Toomey compromise on background checks, Gabby Giffords pens an op-ed in The New York Times. An excerpt: Speaking is physically difficult for me. But my feelings are clear: I’m furious. I will not rest until we have righted the wrong these senators have done, and until we…
U.S. Senate Kills Background Check Legislation; Patricia Maisch Incensed
Earlier today, the U.S. Senate mustered 54 votes in favor of the Manchin-Toomey background check compromise—which was six votes shy of the 60 necessary to break a filibuster. The vote drew the ire of many supporters of the legislation, from Mark Kelly and Gabrielle Giffords’ Americans for Responsible Solutions (“We will use every means possible…
PCC Has a New Interim Chancellor: Zelema Harris
If a profile on Zelema Harris published in a 2010 issue of The St. Louis American rings true, perhaps the Pima Community College’s governing board has chosen itself the right person for the job and hopefully Harris is prepared to pick up the pieces of a college now possibly close to being put on probation…
